Vase with flowers ready for art show

©2018 Barry Smith - Vase with Flowers and Leaves

I got a bit of time in the studio-garage yesterday and quite a bit today. Ken has offered to transport my entry into the Aspects Art Show to Goondiwindi if I had it completed over the weekend. So that was the focus off my studio time.

I had to make one last flower and adapt my original prototype - I wanted to have 7 flowers in the end. I have had to use quite a large tulip vase for the last flower form as I had not been able to source a smaller one.

©2018 Barry Smith 

Flowers were ready for their final grind and polish.

©2018 Barry Smith

©2018 Barry Smith - Flower heads looking good

It had been suggested to me that I might attach leaves to the flowers. I rather liked the sparse for of the flowers asa you can see in the photo below.

©2018 Barry Smith Vase with Flowers 

But I decided to compromise and make some detached leaves to add to the arrangement.

©2018 Barry Smith - Patinated leaf forms glued to brass tubing

Fiona helped me with deciding on the balance between the height of the vase and the length of the stems of the flowers. I think we have got it right - used glass beads to raise the stems up and also to lock them in place once they were arranged.

©2018 Barry Smith - Vase with Flowers and Leaves

©2018 Barry Smith - Leaf forms make it appear more like a floral arrangement

I now need to document what I have done and pack the lot for Ken to take on his trip. The final piece stands at about 1m high.